SAMMPRIS (Stenting vs. Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis), a large NIH funded trial comparing two methods of stroke prevention was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (N Engl J Med 2011; 365: 993-1003). This particular study showed that medical therapy was...

Dr. Philip Meyers from our Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Centers has made history here at Columbia as the first to use the new Pipeline™ Embolization Device for the treatment of brain aneurysms. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration last April, the Pipeline Device had...

Endovascular specialists, Dr. Dorothea Altschul and Dr. Philip Meyers served as moderators at the Advanced Interventional Management (AIM) Symposium in NYC recently. The AIM symposium is an international meeting that...

Dr. Philip Meyers from the Endovascular Center has returned from Chicago, where he spoke at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA). With nearly 80,000 attendees from around the globe, this meeting is one of the largest medical conference held in the United...

A team of our doctors has published an interesting case study in the journal, Surgical Neurology International. The article is entitled, Medial lenticulostriate artery aneurysm presenting...

Dr. Philip Meyers from our Cerebrovascular Center and Endovascular Center was just elected Vice President of the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery (SNIS). SNIS is a multi-disciplinary society of neurosurgeons, radiologists and neurologists who perform neuro-endovascular...

“It was horrible. I was opening presents with my children on Christmas day and then I was gone,” says Sheila Uhl. It would be six weeks before Sadie, 6 and Jackson, 8 would see their mom again and by then she had completely changed. “Christmas night I started vomiting non-stop,” says Sheila. “After about three hours I said, ‘Jimmy I think something is really wrong with me...

  Dr. Philip Meyers from the Cerebrovascular Center and Endovascular Center has received Castle Connolly's Top Doctor award five years in a row now. For this, he just received their Top Doctor 5 Consecutive Year Award. He also recently received their Patients' Choice...

Dr. Philip Meyers from the Cerebrovascular Center and Endovascular Center re-visited the question, 'Aneurysm: To Clip or Coil?' yesterday as a Grand Rounds co-presenter here at Columbia. This continues to be a great topic for discussion in neurosurgery today. Read more on the subject in our...

Today we are seeing the integration of medicine and technology like never before and no where is this more true than in a subspecialty of medicine you may never have even heard of called Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology (ESNR). ESNR is formally defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education as “a clinical subspecialty for the diagnosis and treatment of neurovascular diseases using x-ray fluoroscopy and angiography.”